• Robert Elms Folk (born March 5, 1949) is an American film and television composer and conductor who has written over 80 film and television scores, as...
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  • folk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Folk or Folks may refer to: Nation People Folklore Folk art Folk dance Folk hero Folk horror Folk music Folk...
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    Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk...
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  • Robert E. Lee Folkes (June 20, 1922 – January 5, 1945) was an African American man who was convicted and executed in 1945 for the murder of Martha James...
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  • Robert "Bob" Louis "Luigi" Folk (September 30, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio – June 4, 2018) was an American geologist and petrologist, specializing in sedimentology...
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    In China, folk Protestantism had its origins with the Taiping Rebellion. Chinese folk religion, folk Christianity, folk Hinduism, and folk Islam are examples...
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    Folklore (redirect from Folk Culture)
    customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and initiation rites....
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  • Neofolk, also known as apocalyptic folk, is a form of music blending elements of folk and industrial music, which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980s...
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  • Robert Sarazin Blake is an American singer-songwriter hailing from Bellingham, Washington. Blake is generally considered a folk musician, though his music...
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  • Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It typically combines elements of folk and...
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    latest example of "folk horror"—think Robert Eggers' The Witch or Ari Aster's Midsommar. But Southeast Asian horror has always been folk horror. It's our...
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  • Thoms, the editor of Notes and Queries who had first introduced the term folk-lore, seems to have been instrumental in the formation of the society: as...
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  • In folkloristics, folk belief or folk-belief is a broad genre of folklore that is often expressed in narratives, customs, rituals, foodways, proverbs...
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    The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport...
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    Eliza Gilkyson (category American folk singers)
    author Robert Jensen. Gilkyson is a two-time Grammy Award nominee, receiving a nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 2004 and Best Folk Album...
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    best known for his role as Ben Bruckner on the Showtime series Queer as Folk. At age ten, Gant began acting in television commercials in Florida and became...
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    The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White...
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    What Are Little Boys Made Of? (category Robert Southey)
    19th century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 821. The author of the rhyme is uncertain, but may be English poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). Here...
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  • Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is...
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    Queer as Folk is a drama television series that ran from December 3, 2000, to August 7, 2005. The series was produced for Showtime and Showcase by Cowlip...
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  • Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of...
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    Contemporary folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid-20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional folk music...
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  • hiring composer Robert Folk to write a few new pieces of score that would give the action greater heft. Despite his contributions, Folk ultimately went...
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  • Folk jazz is a musical style that combines traditional folk music with elements of jazz, usually featuring richly texturized songs. Its origins can be...
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  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (category Films scored by Robert Folk)
    Ventura: When Nature Calls is a 1995 soundtrack on this film by composer Robert Folk. "Africa (What Made You So Strong)" - 3:28 (Johnny Clegg and Savuka)...
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    was a Jacobite Scottish outlaw, who later became a Scottish and Jacobite folk hero. As a MacGregor, Rob Roy was a Scottish Episcopalian Protestant by upbringing...
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  • A Troll in Central Park (category Films scored by Robert Folk)
    The music for A Troll in Central Park was composed and conducted by Robert Folk, who previously provided the soundtrack for Rock-a-Doodle (1991), and...
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    Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some...
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  • Robert McGregor or MacGregor may refer to: Robert Roy MacGregor (1671–1734), Scottish folk hero and outlaw Robert MacGregor (engineer) (1873–1956), British...
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  • By 1965, Bob Dylan was the leading songwriter of the American folk music revival. The response to his albums The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Times They...
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